cybersecurity

A signage of Microsoft is seen on March 13, 2020 in New York City. The U.S. government and Microsoft recently revealed that Chinese hackers broke in to online email systems and stole some unclassified information. Jeenah Moon/Getty Images hide caption

Matt Ashley, a senior technologist at Johnson Memorial Health in Franklin, Indiana, is part of a small IT team that spent months helping the hospital recover after a crippling cyberattack in 2021. Farah Yousry/WFYI hide caption

Servers at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi are still not back to normal two weeks after they were hacked and the data was held for ransom. Amal KS/Hindustan Times via Getty Images hide caption

Peiter Zatko, known by his hacker name "Mudge," talks about cybersecurity with the Senate Governmental Affairs committee on May 19, 1998. He's scheduled to testify again about his whistleblower complaint against Twitter on Sept. 13, 2022. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images) Douglas Graham/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images hide caption

Harri Hursti told NPR he's been instructed not to open the box containing the Dominion ImageCast X machine that he bought on eBay for $1,200. Harri Hursti hide caption

Peiter Zatko, Twitter's former security head, poses for a portrait on Aug. 22 in Washington, D.C. Zatko accused the company of ignoring major security vulnerabilities in an explosive whistleblower complaint. Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption

People shop at an Apple Store in Beijing on Sept. 28, 2021. Apple has disclosed serious security vulnerabilities for iPhones, iPads and Macs that could potentially allow attackers to take complete control of these devices. Andy Wong/AP hide caption

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly testifies before a House Homeland Security Subcommittee, at the Rayburn House Office Building on April 28 in Washington, D.C. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images hide caption

Service members of the 126th Separate Territorial Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine take part in military exercises in the Odesa region on Wednesday. Oleksandr Gimanov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

Professor Rain Ottis leads a Locked Shield Excercise at Hilton Tallinn Park. Nora Lorek for NPR hide caption

A flag of the International Committee of the Red Cross flutters above the humanitarian organization's headquarters in Geneva on Sept. 29, 2021. The ICRC is pleading with hackers to keep stolen data confidential. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

A virtual conference hosted by the White House includes 'like-minded' nations that are all facing challenges with ransomware. Busà Photography/Getty Images hide caption

Fuel holding tanks are pictured at Colonial Pipeline's Dorsey Junction Station in Woodbine, Maryland in May 2021, the month that a cyberattack disrupted gas supply to the eastern U.S. for several days. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption

An alert on a suspected attack by state-backed Chinese hackers from the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in April. Jon Elswick/AP hide caption

This Feb 23, 2019, file photo shows the inside of a computer. A ransomware attack paralyzed the networks of at least 200 U.S. companies, according to a cybersecurity researcher whose company was responding to the incident. Jenny Kane/AP hide caption

Hackers used the U.S. Agency for International Development's email marketing account to send messages that looked legitimate — but links in the email exposed recipients to malicious software, Microsoft says. Screen grab by Microsoft hide caption

The shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline following a cyberattack is prompting speculation about what could happen to gasoline and diesel prices ahead of Memorial Day. Rick Bowmer/AP hide caption